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Edited on Sat Aug-08-09 10:44 PM by RandomThoughts
If someone says something many times people listen because they say it. I think that is wrong, I think comments should hold their own authority, they should not require a status of the speaker because they contain, if correct, their own credibility because they make sense. And are backed up by feeling, thinking, and logic. In the same respect, if they do not, no matter who says them they should be discarded.
Its not the speaker but the ideas that matter, unfortunately many times people get things right a few times in a row, or are liked for other reasons, and so what they say is thought correct for those reasons. But what someone says is not the same thing as who the person is. And who a person is does not make what they say always correct.
Much of what we see on TV and even the media is people given authority without there comments having credibility.
(Edit: However this post is in contradiction to an earlier post saying people should disclose sponsors. The reason for that contradiction is that people paid to post, spoken of in the other post, are presenting an image of numbers of support. While each comment could be held on its own merit, as stated in this post, a paid poster would be repeated above just one person posting, so the need for disclosure would move it back from money buying an image of consensus to it being shown many posters are actually the opinion of one person paying a large group to repeat the comments, lowering its presumed consensus value.)
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